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Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Alex on May 06, 2006, 04:32:00 am

Features:

- parallax background influenced by road turns
- steering
- acceleration
- hills
- fairly fast pseudo-3D engine :)

http://artraid.com/alex/index.php/2006/05/06/raster-racing-89-animated-screenshot/

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Spellshaper on May 06, 2006, 05:03:00 am

looks really awesome!!! :thumb:

keep it up :)

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: saubue on May 06, 2006, 05:20:00 am

Wow, this looks fantastic! I can't wait to play this game (if you want to make one out of it)

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Ranman on May 06, 2006, 06:31:00 am

Oh my goodness!! :thumb:

Where is the slot for the quarters? ;)

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Spellshaper on May 06, 2006, 06:38:00 am

QuoteBegin-Ranman+May 6 2006, 07:31 PM-->

QUOTE (Ranman @ May 6 2006, 07:31 PM)

Where is the slot for the quarters? ;)

 There is no slot, you need to transfer the amount to my bank account :lol:

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Post by: Liazon on May 06, 2006, 09:04:00 am

That's insane!!

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Post by: Radical Pi on May 06, 2006, 10:00:00 am

o.o



That's all I can say.

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Alex on May 06, 2006, 10:23:00 am

I'm happy for all your positive feedback :) Thanks a lot guys!

- Alex

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: g28401 on May 06, 2006, 11:20:00 am

looks very good, especially since it is for the calculator.

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Post by: spengo on May 06, 2006, 12:41:00 pm

Cool! Just like lotus turbo challenge but with better graphics. :D Are you going to have all the other cool stuff like other cars and tunnels and checkpoints and stuff too? XD

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Alex on May 06, 2006, 01:22:00 pm

We'll see about tunnels (I have an idea for that, but it might be too slow). Other cars are imperative, and afterwards I'll figure out what kind of racing game this will be.

- Alex

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Radical Pi on May 06, 2006, 01:26:00 pm

Did I notice the car changing shades of gray based on its angle?

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Alex on May 06, 2006, 02:03:00 pm

You sure did, but that's only CalcCapture being special ;) The game is four-level grayscale, fixed.

- Alex

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: g28401 on May 06, 2006, 06:45:00 pm

sort of reminds me of pole position...

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Radical Pi on May 06, 2006, 11:49:00 pm

Ok, I started thinking you would also integrate sunlight, however pointless it would be. XD

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Alex on May 07, 2006, 02:15:00 am

It's a TI-89 not a PS3 :P

- Alex

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Alex on May 08, 2006, 04:20:00 am

Updated! :) The road now moves around the player's car, and not the other way around (just like in the original Lotus games). Here's some animated goodness:

Now:


Before:


The road is a bit smoother now, too, with less jagged edges.

- Alex

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Post by: spengo on May 08, 2006, 04:34:00 am

Looks very wootiful. :D Can't wait 'till you finish this one!

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Liazon on May 08, 2006, 07:50:00 am

O_O just amazing

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Spellshaper on May 08, 2006, 08:04:00 am

Alex is now known as god

bow to his divinity! :bow:  

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Radical Pi on May 08, 2006, 08:20:00 am

O_O *Radical Pi bows.
Will that make it faster or slower?

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Alex on May 08, 2006, 08:24:00 am

It's now faster, because I made some optimizations along the way :D It runs between 61 and 78 FPS (depending on how many road segments it has to draw). Thanks for the compliments, you guys are kind really :)

- Alex

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Post by: Ranman on May 08, 2006, 08:34:00 am

QuoteBegin-Alex+May 8 2006, 10:20 AM-->

QUOTE (Alex @ May 8 2006, 10:20 AM)

Updated! :) The road now moves around the player's car, and not the other way around (just like in the original Lotus games). Here's some animated goodness: The road is a bit smoother now, too, with less jagged edges. - Alex

I loved playing Lotus Turbo Challenge (or something like that) on my old Amiga 600. I loved that game -- especially the music. :lol:

Personally, I like the car to move side to side a little bit. It requires a little bit more hand to eye coordination. Hence, it makes the game more fun to play.  B)

Are you going to add a few more sprites that depict the actual turning of the car?

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Alex on May 09, 2006, 12:53:00 am

I definitely will, I just didn't get to it just yet. There's gonna be a lot of work on sprites now that I think about it :( I plan to make it like Hiways and have a modular engine that allows the player to choose any AI car.

- Alex

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Alex on May 09, 2006, 11:08:00 am

This is the current state of the game, before I'll add AI cars and other objects. :)



http://artraid.com/alex/index.php/2006/05/09/one-more-screenshot/

- Alex

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: spengo on May 09, 2006, 12:21:00 pm

Looks awesome, but isn't that car a little too big? o.o I liked it bettter smaller.

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Alex on May 09, 2006, 01:31:00 pm

And done it is. This car looks tasty :) I also added a shadow underneath. (check two posts above for ss)

- Alex

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Post by: JFISH on May 09, 2006, 02:11:00 pm

SEXY! O_O i love car games....dis looks off da hook man... cant wait till ya pimp dis out  :lol:  dat car sprite is phat! looks like a supra...AHA...peace

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: spengo on May 09, 2006, 02:16:00 pm

Looks nifty. :o You think you could make the car sprite change directions when turning like on games like mario kart? That would be ueber. :)

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: elfprince13 on May 09, 2006, 02:35:00 pm

sweet car.

*elfprince13

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Alex on May 09, 2006, 02:40:00 pm

Yes, I definitely will add turning sprites for when steering. For now it's only the barebones engine, and nothing else. However, I will first take care of more essential things like AI cars. Those will slow the game down a lot...

Thank you for all your nice comments!

elfprince13: Steal one from your local Staples, just like I did. :rolleyes:

- Alex

Edit: Added screenshot to new thread page.

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: elfprince13 on May 09, 2006, 06:00:00 pm

is the car driving in reverse? or is that just an optical illusion? looks like Im looking at the front of the car....maybe thats just me though.

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Alex on May 10, 2006, 12:50:00 am

Nah, it's the back, it's one of those modern sports cars with meaner backs :P

- Alex

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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 14, 2006, 03:40:00 am

o.oo.oo.oo.oo.oo.oo.oo.oo.o

HOLY F***ING S*** ITS F***ING AWESOME I <3 U I WANT A 89!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111111!111!!!11111111!111eleventyone!111

wow, just wow, I cant wait to see this finished, it reminds me Lotus turbo challenge really.

Only problem I noticed: shouldnt the bg image scroll faster when turning? According to perspective in real world I always though further elements would scroll faster than nearest ones when rotating camera. Just something I thought

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Alex on May 14, 2006, 06:54:00 am

Good point, I'll fix it when I'll get to that. For now my mind is trapped working on AI cars, which prove to be a tad more difficult than I thought.

- Alex

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: kalan_vod on May 14, 2006, 12:03:00 pm

Well I am sure you will get it working (the AI), and maybe you could add a whale on the last level :P j/k...It does look a little mean though for a back end XD

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: Alex on May 15, 2006, 02:08:00 am

Yea the end level features you running over whales ;)

- Alex

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 15, 2006, 03:37:00 am

HAHA lol XD

Title: Raster Racing - animated screenshot!
Post by: kalan_vod on May 15, 2006, 08:18:00 am

Really? Wow, that would be cool :P...Maybe a sign that says "Whales Park ->" would be cool :P